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"After his mother was diagnosed with a mysterious form of dementia, Max Lugavere put his successful media career on hold to learn everything he could about brain health and performance. For the better half of a decade, he consumed the most up-to-date scientific research, talked to dozens of leading scientists and clinicians around the world, and visited the country's best neurology departments--all in the hopes of understanding his mother's condition....
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Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"A self-proclaimed human guinea pig, Asprey arms readers with practical advice to maximize their lives at every age with his signature mix of science-geek wonder, candor, and enthusiasm. Getting older no longer has to mean decline. Now it’s an opportunity to become Super Human." --
23) Whispered lies
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B.A.D volume 3
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English
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Bureau of American Defense operative Carlos Delgado must join forces with informant Gabrielle Saxe--a woman he can neither trust nor resist--to uncover a deadly plan that risks countless lives and threatens economic chaos just days before the U.S. presidential election.
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B.A.D volume 2
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English
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As she consults with the New Orleans Police Department to bust an organized crime ring suspected of funding terrorism, a gutsy female agent from the Bureau of American Defense encounters an elusive killer who isn't at all what he seems.
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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"CNN chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, MD, offers an accessible, data-packed answer to our biggest questions about Covid-19: What have we learned about this pandemic and how can we prepare for--or prevent--the next one? As America's favorite frontline Covid-19 health journalist, Dr. Sanjay Gupta has barely left his primetime seat in his makeshift studio basement since the pandemic began (other than to perform brain surgery). He's had the insider...
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Greystone Books Ltd
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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Writing with clear, persuasive language, Dr. Jason Fung explains the only way to treat type 2 diabetes effectively is proper dieting and intermittent fasting - not medication. Dr. Fung proposes a new, evidence-based way to break the cycle of high blood glucose and increased insulin resistance. Drawing from the latest in medical research, he outlines the impact of diet and lifestyle in type 2 diabetes and offers simple, easy-to-follow advice for preventing...
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Have you ever felt a crushing wave of panic when you can't for the life of you remember the name of that actor in the movie you saw last week, or you walk into a room only to forget why you went there in the first place? If you're over forty, you're probably not laughing. You might even be worried that these lapses in memory could be an early sign of Alzheimer's or dementia. In reality, for the vast majority of us, these examples of forgetting are...
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Picture Window Books
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2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Jamie, Terry, and Sydney have been going to Camp Barkley every summer since they were puppies. But when a new dog named Taylor joins their cabin, Taylor's mean jokes make Jamie feel left out and picked on. Young readers watch Jamie struggle with Taylor's jokes and learn safe ways to make it stop.
29) Independence Day
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2015
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English
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Dewey Andreas, former Delta and newly recruited intelligence agent, is sidelined after screwing up his last two operations... A high level Russian hacker, known only as Cloud, is believed to be routing large amounts of money to various Al Qaeda terror cells, and the mission is to capture and render harmless Cloud. At the same time, a back-up team is sent after the only known associate of Cloud, a ballerina believed to be his girlfriend. Unwilling...
30) Gangs
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Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 2
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English
32) Terror Red
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Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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When a heavily financed terrorist organization begins a campaign of attacks on U.S. soil, recently retired Colonel David Gibson and political consultant Christina Marchetti are catapulted into a whirlwind race to prevent World War III.
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Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"Are you at risk of being scammed? Former con artist and bestselling author of Catch Me If You Can Frank Abagnale shows you how to stop scammers in their tracks. Maybe you're wondering how to make the scam phone calls stop. Perhaps someone has stolen your credit card number. Or you've been a victim of identity theft. Even if you haven't yet been the target of a crime, con artists are always out there, waiting for the right moment to steal your information,...
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Scot Harvath volume 21
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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An unprecedented, potentially nation-ending threat has materialized on the world stage. Though the United States has long been aware of the growing risk, administration after administration has passed the buck, fearful of the global consequences of engaging this enemy head-on. The clock, however, has now run out and doing nothing is no longer an option. With the stakes higher than they have ever been, it is time to unleash Scot Harvath. As America's...
35) Extreme measures
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Mitch Rapp volume 11
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English
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#1 New York Times bestselling phenomenon Vince Flynn delivers a white-knuckled rollercoaster ride of a novel featuring "the best hero the thriller genre has to offer" (The Real Book Spy) as Mitch Rapp wages a war against a new enemy with the help of a fellow soldier as dedicated—and as lethal—as they come.
Counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp and his colleague Mike Nash may have finally met their match. The CIA...
Counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp and his colleague Mike Nash may have finally met their match. The CIA...
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HarperOne
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
After her first-grade daughter, Katie, was roundly bullied for having what was considered a gender-inappropriate Star Wars thermos, the author, purveyor of a popular blog on Chicago.now, wrote a post that went into overdrive. Here, she offers concrete advice on dealing with bullying, something one in five teens say they have experienced in the last year.
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Rig warrior volume 4
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English
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"No one saw the first attack coming--a perfectly orchestrated assault on a mass-transit railroad line that left countless Americans dead. Intelligence experts are convinced this is no ordinary terrorist attack. To pull off something like this, it would take a ... traitor with dark foreign connections. And to stop them, it will take someone who isn't afraid to shed blood ... Enter Barry Rivers, the Rig Warrior. An urban legend in the intelligence community,...
39) Rain on the dead
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Sean Dillon volume 21
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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In the past few years, the killing and capture of many Al-Qaeda leaders has left the terrorist organization wounded--but by no means dead. And they intend to prove it. On a dark summer night, two Chechen mercenaries emerge from the waters off Nantucket to kill a high-value target, the former president of the United States, Jake Cazalet. Unfortunately for them, Cazalet has guests with him, including black ops specialist Sean Dillon and his colleague,...
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